states hit by sandy could get more help from the government. democrats have put together a bill that would provide $60 billion in disaster aid to the affected areas. the president who visited the area a short time ago made the request for the emergency spending bill last week. the proposal comes at a time when lawmakers are of course already battling -- doing battle over the fiscal cliff. >>> the red cross is under fire for the amount of money it raised verses the amount of money it spent on sandy relief. they pulled in $188 million in donations according to a yahoo report, 78 million remains unspent. a spokeswoman said they will release a spending plan soon. >> let's go to sal. there is a bad crash on the peninsula. what happened? >> it's a crash on southbound 101, there is a huge back up now. right there, just on the border of san carlos and redwood city on southbound 101. the best thing is to use 280 instead. this crash at one point had been blocking all the lanes and a sig alert has been issued at holly street. serious injury crash. northbo